Goin' Downtown

Unending BE - episode 30141

(AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Julie-Su, is, as I said, a character from a comic book. I didn't originally INTEND to bring her into this addventure, but when I was reading the "Rusalka" storyline, with its animal-people, dark cyberpunk-ish atmosphere, and reality-skipping, the image of Julie-Su--a dark, cyberpunk, animal person from a different reality who is a MEAN shot with a gun and can KICK BUTT when she wants to--just FLASHED into my mind. She would have been SO PERFECT with that storyline. My original intention was to have her show up in THAT thread, wielding an AK-47 and a grabbling gun, shoot up the bad guys but good in true action-movie style, then grab Sharon and, using her grappling gun, swing up onto the roof of a building and run off with her! Then the other Authors would be given the option of figuring out whether this strange and dangerous new person was RESCUING Sharon--or kidnapping her! However, the problem is, I was reading the Rusalka storyline at 3:00 in the morning and I was WAY too sleepy to keep up with all the political-situation stuff and the technical aspects of the reality-switching, so I couldn't write her into THAT without making a fool of myself. Also, because Sharon had a definite mission, the opportunity to throw in a new character out of the blue never quite came up...
So, I grabbed the nearest available close-by thread, turned Sharon into an exotic animal-person that could DEFEND itself--and brought in Julie-Su in a storyline that makes NO SENSE. I'm sorry about that.
What I'm NOT sorry about is how I always make Sharon turn into a DANGEROUS animal; I make her new form useful every time. When I'm writing her, she turns into a bee, which can fly and sting, or a chameleon, which can turn invisible and CAN'T be picked up on infrared goggles (no body heat)! And climb walls. I also am not going to apologise for my attempt to blend my "Floating Island" storyline with the "Cow Sharon" storyline--writing that episode where Bee-Sharon and the Chaotix burst in and wreck the place was FUUUUNNNNN!!! :)
Anyway, to wrap this up, Julie-Su is a character from this comic book, and she really was a member of the Dark Legion. The guy who's taking her away is actually a GOOD guy despite his current creepiness--his name is Constable Remington and he's one of the BEST characters in the whole thing. Well, I think so, anyway. So don't even THINK about having him rape her or torture her; he just wouldn't, his ethics are too strong for that. However, at this point people are REALLY suspicious of Julie-Su (by the way, all the females in this society have hyphenated names like that. Julie-Su, Lara-Le, Janelle-Li, etc.) and because the Dark Legion has a REALLLY bad reputation--I believe they almost wiped out the entire city once!--naturally people are NOT going to treat Julie very well until she proves herself somehow.
But DON'T have Remington--the brown-furred cop that just caught her and Sharon--rape her or torture her. He can be strict and scary, yes, but NOT evil. Okay?
And now on with our story.
)

"Officer", called out Sharon, fading from the dark red of the brick wall to her (now) customary neon pink, "I--I'm with her, too." The officer looked startled, but Julie-Su gave her a warm, grateful smile.
"All right," said the officer, looking a bit confused. "A chameleon hangin' out with an echidna, huh?" he asked Sharon. "I thought you guys never really attached yourself to anybody or anything."
That's news to me, thought Sharon to herself. "Times change." she shrugged.
The officer allowed himself a tiny half-smile. "So they do. Well, get in, then." And he gestured Sharon casually towards his police car. His gun never wavered from the back of Julie-Su's neck, though.
After a short drive at high speeds through this odd new city, they arrived at the police station, where the officer--who introduced himself to them as Constable Remington, the head of the EST--strapped Julie-Su into a chair with something that looked like a polygraph machine only more advanced. "Just relax, now," he told her, using that voice again that was SUPPOSED to be reassuring but wasn't. "I'm going to ask you a few questions. All you have to do is answer them and we'll see whether you're REALLY no longer in the Legion or not."
The questioning began.

  1. *The machine says that Julie-Su is telling the truth; the Constable lets her off with a strong warning.
  2. *The machine says she's lying! Julie-Su protests but her words fall on deaf ear-holes; (these people don't have visible ears), and she is thrown in jail pending further sentence.
  3. SOMETHING ELSE happens out of the blue for no apparent reason...
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Mello

Sun Jul 4 10:03:50 1999